When you think about mobile gaming in the 80s and 90s, you are more than likely going to be thinking about some version of the Nintendo Game Boy. Nintendo managed to dominate the handheld market, even with a number of competitors, many of whom had superior technical specifications. But no one was able to match…
The memory apocalypse has already hit prices of RAM and SSDs as AI data centres buy up all the available stock, and it’s only going to get worse according to Jefferies Equity Research. As reported by Wccftech, memory prices are likely to go up between 40 and 50% in the third quarter of 2026, and…
Even if building a gaming PC is prohibitively expensive for most people in 2026, software continues to be cheap and abundant. Valve launched its Steam Summer sale last week and all the normal things happened: Red Dead Redemption 2 got a 75% discount for the 14th time since January 2025. The Witcher 3 got its…
Hello everyone! I’m Takeshi Yamanaka, producer of MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls. Did you get a chance to check out the final team trailer revealed today, Sunday, June 28 at EVO 2026 —the “Samurai Outriders”? If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to watch it below. Play Video Fifth and final team revealed: Samurai Outriders…
As reported by Polygon, we now have a release window for the second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. We’ll finally see more episodes of the explosively popular anime adaptation of Mike Pondsmith’s tabletop setting and CD Projekt’s 2020 RPG sometime this fall. I had to do a double take when I noticed it’s been a whole…
In a recent appearance on the Human Can Opener podcast, Obsidian design director Josh Sawyer talked about how the studio approached balance in Fallout: New Vegas, particularly with skill checks in dialogue and making sure different character builds got unique, cool reactivity throughout the game. “Some people think I’m preoccupied with balance,” said Sawyer. “I…
Rivals of Aether 2 isn’t the only Smash Bros.-esque fighting game on Steam, but it might just be the best—unlike the first game, though, it hasn’t included any guest characters just yet. Even Shovel Knight, who appeared in the first Rivals of Aether game, was effectively succeeded by an alarmingly sexy shark man earlier this…
There’s one thing all videogame adaptations in film and TV have in common: they stink. Or at least, that’s how it felt for a long time—personally, I stopped adding the caveat ‘good for a videogame adaptation’ after I watched the Fallout show and learned these things didn’t have to be somewhere between middling and godawful….
I was blown away when Meccha Chameleon, the friendsloppish PvP hit where you paint your body in an expressive game of hide-and-seek, sold a million copies in a few days. Here I am blown away again as the novelty refuses to wear off: less than a month after release, the game has sold a whopping…
Whether you’re talking about multiverse-upending event comics or that time Shadow the Hedgehog called Darkseid “pathetic,” comic book stories love taking unrelated groups of characters and smashing them together. The same is true of traditional fighting games, where Ryu is as likely to be seen throwing fireballs at the Hulk or Minecraft Steve as he…